Wife of judge suspended after video of him beating his cerebral palsy daughter was posted online tries to block his return to the bench

The judge who was suspended from his job after a video showing him beating his cerebral palsy daughter was posted online is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate him.

The 2004 video posted by the daughter of Judge William Adams, from Texas, sparked outrage across the nation last year due to the viscous verbal and physical abuse he administered on Hillary Adams when she was just 16.

His former wife Hallie has asked that he does not return to the bench. She filed a grievance with the the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct in August and in a letter on Tuesday, she asked that the suspension not be lifted until her complaint has been fully investigated.

Abusive father: Hillary Adams claims her father William Adams would call her a 'retard' and stamp on her wrists for long periods of time forcing her to expose him with a secretly filmed video of him beating her

Reconciled: Hallie Adams, left, and her daughter, Hillary Adams, have reconciled and arrived at court together last year where William Adams was fighting for visitation with his 10-year-old daughter

According to CNN, the family law judge signed off on a public warning on Wednesday issued by the commission waiving his right to appeal its sanction.

The signature clears the way for the
Supreme Court to rule on a motion to have his suspension lifted, which
the commission is said to support.

Mrs Adams said yesterday: 'I have not
been able to get anyone to protect me and now I am trying to protect
the public from being judged by a person that I feel does not have the
capacity to act fairly and effectively as a judge as evidence of how he
has treated his own family over the years.'

Mr and Mrs Adams divorced in 2007 and are currently involved in a custody battle over their youngest daughter, who is 11.

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The disturbing seven-minute video, which was recorded secretly by Hillary, shows Adams screaming at his disabled daughter: 'I’m going to wear your f*****g ass
out with this belt', after landing 20 painful blows on her legs and
back.

The video posting said: 'Judge William
Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can't even
exercise fit judgment as a parent himself.

'Do not allow this man to ever
be re-elected again. His "judgment" is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary
Adams, his daughter.'

However, at one point during the disturbing
video, Adams was joined by his wife Hallie, who took over the beatings,
demanding that their daughter 'take it like a woman'.

They have since reconciled.

Vicious: The YouTube video showed Texas judge William Adams savagely beating his disabled daughter with a belt 20 times as she begged him to stop

No remorse: William Adams repeatedly denied wrongdoing, claiming he was 'just disciplining my child' and that the video 'looks worse than it is'

Miss Adams - who is now 24 - said of her mother: 'When I showed her the video, she was
so devastated that she could have ever done anything so awful and
wouldn’t stop apologising.

'My mother was brainwashed by my father. She was a total doormat. They met when they were teenagers.'

Speaking last year about why she
finally decided to post the video, she said: 'I had a feeling that I
needed to hold on to it and show it to someone one day.' she said last
year. 'We were the perfect, normal nuclear
family,. Everyone thought he was the perfect
person.

'He couldn’t do anything wrong in the eyes of our neighbors. He
was two-faced.

'It was the straw that broke the camel's
back. It wasn't any huge happening or
anything.'

As a family law judge, Adams handles misdemeanor cases, including family-related and juvenile court issues.

'He needs help': William Adams' daughter said her main motivation behind making the video public was to force him to apologise and 'to get psychological help'

To their friends and neighbors the Adams family who lived in Rockport, Texas represented an ideal of wholesome American life.

The image was reinforced by her
father's prestigious job, his regular church attendance and his
seemingly happy marriage to his wife Haille.

In private, Miss Adams said, he was a different person; controlling, angry and unpredictable.

Explaining how her father acted towards her, she revealed he refused to acknowledge his daughter's cerebral palsy 'because he felt it would reflect badly on him', referring to her as 'a retard' when she was unable to carry out menial tasks such as sweeping the drive.

Brave: Hillary Adams spoke out about the years of abuse suffered at the hands of her father

'I once forgot to feed the family pet and he kicked me in the garage. I said, ‘Dad, that’s child abuse’ and he said, ‘You don’t know what child abuse is’.

'In his job, he would see terrible cases every day, so kicking his own daughter was no big deal.'

She told The New York Times last year that he deliberately stood on her wrist for long periods and forced her younger sister, now aged 10, to attend an adult gym because 'You’re a fat f****** pig.'

She can laugh about it now, she says, because 'it’s so bad there’s no other option and I’ve cut the puppet strings that he used to control me.

'But my father is a judge and has a grip on the community.'

Because Miss Adams was taught at home and her bruises were hidden beneath trousers, the abuse went undetected by the outside world.

'My dad is still saying I wasn’t hurt, which is a complete lie because I showed him all the bruises, up and down my legs. I said, ‘It hurts to walk’ and he said, ‘Good’.'

What angers his daughter the most, is his refusal to show any remorse.

He repeatedly denied wrongdoing when the video came out, claiming he was 'just disciplining my child' and that the video 'looks worse than it is.'

Miss Adams, whose main motivation, she said was to force her father to apologize and 'to get psychological help',

'I wanted to hold a mirror up to his behavior. I can’t say that vengeance wasn’t at least a small part of it.

'But I wanted him to be shocked and wanted other people to see it to try and get him to change. I thought this was a way to get through to him.'

Although the five-year statute of limitations regarding abuse has expired because the video dates from 2004, his daughter thinks she may have grounds to force change.

'I am disappointed he is suspended on full pay. That’s more like a vacation. If this goes unpunished it tells other parents that they can get away with it. For too long bad parenting has gone unpunished.'

Miss Adams spoke out about her abusive upbringing because she felt it was important to encourage other children to come forward if they suffer at the hands of their parents.

'All schools should explain what verbal and physical abuse is as a mandatory part of the national curriculum,' she said.

'Children need to know what abuse is. I
know a lot of people who have experienced it that but that they don’t
know what is right or wrong.'